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APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND DRYING BARRELS.

No. 348,888. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

iliyi'ran STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE ST. LOUIS OOOPER AGE COMPANY.

APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND DRYING BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,888, dated September 7,1886.

Application filed January 18. 1886. Serial No. 188,872. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l. Janus M. CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Apparatus for Heating and Drying Barrels or Oasks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the heating and drying of casks or barrels preparatory to the hooping and finishing of same, and has for its object to heat the barrel or cask externally as well as internally, to obviate the necessity and inconvenience of lifting the baru rel by hand for placing it around the heater,

as at present and to insure a more thorough and rapid drying of the barrel than by the ordinary means.

It consists in a combination and arrange ment of apparatus, whereby the barrel or cask is raised into position around the heater,

from which the heat is caused to circulate externally and internally around the barrel 0r cask, thelatter descending freely, when dried, from the heater without interfering with the firing and operation thereof.

On the accompanying sheets of drawings, Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a sectionalelevation, partly broken away, of my invention, showing the barrel or cask in its lowest position away from the heater; Fig. 2, a similar view thereof with the barrel or cask in position for being heated and dried; and Fig. 3, Sheet 2, a plan of the apparatus.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I inclose the ordinary cylindrical firebox or heater, a, used for drying the inside of barrels or casks within a fixed overhead cylinder or drum, 1), which is open at its lower end and closed at the top, except through its central portion, around which is attached the upper and open end of the fire-box or heater a, an annular cylindrical space, a, being left between the heater (0 and surrounding cylinder or drum 1), as shown.

Beneath the annular space 0 the barrel or cask d to be dried is placed in an upright position on a platform, 0, to each side of which is secured the lower end of a rod, j, which passes through the overhead ring or framing g, supporting the outer cylinder or drum, 1), the two rods f being united above the latter by a curved portion or yoke, f, to which is attached a rope or chain, 71, passing over pul- 5 leyst', and terminating in a counterbalanceweight, j; or, if desired, in lieu of uniting the rods f they may be separated and each pro vided with rope, pulley, and counter-weight; or more than two rods may be employed, if found more-suitable, as shown in Fig. 2. On the upper open end of the heater to is a cap or hood, k, provided with a door, Z, through the opening of which fuel is fed to the heater a and grate m, and with a flue, a, through which the waste products of combustion from the heater a are carriedoff in any desired direction.

0 O are rods secu red at their upper ends to the ring or framing g, and passing through holes in the platform 6, so as to serve as guides for preserving the plaform with the cask d in the proper position beneath the heater a.

Assuming the fire to be lighted in the heater a, and the barrel or cask d, with the platform 0 and other parts of the apparatus, in the position shown by Fig. 1, on pulling down the counterbalanceweight j and rope or chain It the platform 0, with the barrel or cask (Z, will be raised by the rods f f, and the barrel or cask d, entering and occupying the annular space 0, will surround the heater to, the heat from which, circulating in the annular space 0, acts upon the outside as well as the inside of the barrel or cask d, and thelatter is there by thoroughly dried. The ashes from the heater a fall through a hole, p, in the platform 0. On the completion of the operation the platform 0, with the barrel or cask (l, is caused to descend from the heater a into its normal position, as in Fig. 1, by raising the counterbalance-weight j.

By this invention the barrels or casks are dried with ease, rapidity, and economy without interfering with the firing or arrangement of the heating apparatus.

I claim as my invention- 7 1. In apparatus for heating and drying bar rels, the combination of the heater a, chamber b, and a lift, e, situate below the chamber 1), and arranged to raise the barrel or cask to a positionwithin the chamber, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the lift for carrying 1 d,,roclsff, rope or chain h, pulleyszQand counthe barrel or cask (l, rods f f, rope or chain terbalaneeweight j, substantially as shown, 71/, pulleys z, counterbalanceweight j, and the and for the purpose set forth. heater a, substantially as and for the purpose In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 5 specified. nature, in presence of two witnesses, this 12th 3. In apparatus for heating and drying bari day of January, 1886.

rels or casks, the combination and arrange- JAMES M. CHAMBERS. ment of the heater (0 and outer cylintlcr or Vitnesses. drum, b, forming an annular space, 1, with JOSEPH \V. CROOKES,

1c the platform 6, for carrying the barrel or cask PAUL BAKEWELL. 

